Both sides deploy
as below and place any leftover cards in numerical orderuse
Historical Scenario rules regarding Late-War & Emancipation.
The game begins on Step 3: Combat of the USA Turn. (In game-terms, the
actual battle lasted for this turn only.) Victory is determined as in a
normal game.

THE SITUATION~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Lincoln sacked McClellan after his failure to follow up his narrow victory
at Antietam, leaning the reluctant (and underqualified) Burnside in command
of the Army of the Potomac.

~ ~ ~

Burnside suffered various delays and when he did move, Lee was waiting
for him. Burnside repeatedly (yet sporadically) threw his troops
in futile assaults against Lee's center. He threatened Lee's right flank,
buy failed to follow up, wasting Meade's fine efforts, and falling victim
to counterattack. Burnside withdrew, his offensive a complete failure.
That night, the northern lights flashed across the north Virginia sky.
Many Southerners believed it was a the angles celebrating their triumph
in heaven.

~ ~ ~

Losses for the campaign were approximately 12,000 for the Union and 6000
for the Confederacy. The gloomy Lincoln made what turned out to be a deeply
prophetic remark to the effect that if he could have a straight week of
Fredericksburg, he would win the war by attrition. A year and a half
later, Grant would give Lincoln his week of Fredericksburg.

It is mid-December 1862. As the North, will you press south
of the Rappahannock and drive down the Yazoo, or will you gather your strength
and await the coming Spring? As the South, will you sit tight in Virginia
or counterattack? Will you concentrate or divide your efforts in the West?
It's all up to you.